This panel, presented by IC tomorrow, will feature the experience of a number of start-ups involved in the IC tomorrow programme who have been working with rights-owners to launch innovative new digital products and services.

This meeting of the London .NET User Group will consist of a series of park bench discussions where you can challenge or defend your favourite aspects of .NET and expose your greatest disappointments. The aim is to gain better insight on where Microsoft is going with .NET and where do we need to...

It doesn't matter how intimidating or confusing the words are, in the end it all has to be executed by a JVM. A little JVM starting to show its age with a limited vocabulary of bytecodes. The goal of May's Code Share is to ignore the big long explanations and take a look at how some of...

Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy, Oriol Gual, Julien Biezemans and Jonas Nicklas have all had a crack at taking Cucumber in a new direction (Spinach, Turnip, TextMapper, Cucumber JVM), and there are valuable ideas in all of them.

This month's meeting for the Groovy Grails User Group will be all about deploying Grails applications. Several community members will describe how they go about ensuring up-time during upgrades, using a Platform-as-a-Service (CloudBees), and more.

In this hands-on coding session developers will be working in pairs to write tests for some existing code. Can we write tests that test all branches of the code? How easy is that? Can we make the code better afterwards?

It's time for another code jam! Come along to exercise those Groovy & Grails muscles in a collaborative environment and with some solid expertise from the community on hand. If you're going to Groovy & Grails Exchange 2011, even better because you can start a project here and...

Will be talking about what characteristics make android a compelling choice to use in automotive entertainment systems. As well as an overview of what Android offers in terms of an automotive entertainment platform, Challenges of using Android with other Linux-based stacks, eg. architectural...

Have you ever wondered what’s the difference between natural feature tracking and vision based augmented reality? In this panel session you’ll hear from AR platform providers about the tools they offer and from a developer who has built real life AR applications for some of the top UK brands....

YOU are a developer. YOU want to expand your market reach. Learn what APIs and opportunities are available from HTC. Imagine the possibilities; be amongst the first to invent apps and games using the new Open Sense SDK APIs – including Stereoscopic 3D, Scribe/Pen, and more. HTCdev is the...

Some of the team (Chris Parsons, Jolyon Pawlyn) behind the newly launched government e-petitions website will talk to LRUG about the issues they had with scaling the site, how they solved them, and how they continue to monitor and improve the service.

In this presentation, Siddiquea and her team showcase their Translation App, "Transit". The app allows Bengali parents to communicate with their child's teachers by translating key phrases from English to Bengali and Bengali to English

Development Tooling is often cited as one of the main areas where people encounter difficulties. This is your opportunity to meet with the people behind the tools. You will have the opportunity to share your development challenges and issues and get answers from the experts along with learning...

In this Lightning session, Touchnote present on their Ninja Project. Touchnote are a London start-up that posts your photos as real, physical postcards -- and are looking for 3 ambitious server-side developers to start ASAP.

In this Lightning session, Grapple Mobile present on their Ninja Project. Grapple Mobile is the leading app development agency in Europe, writing apps in a single code base (CSS, HTML and Javascript) that is then compiled into native binaries for all the leading mobile devices.

This is an opportunity for the developers of apps (including some partially sighted developers) to discuss the challenges of application development for mobile phones with representative of Royal National Institute of Blind People.

Join the London Ruby User Group for their next meeting on Monday, 14th April 2008 at Skills Matter. During this meeting various members of the community will be showing off code that they are proud of!